Country Club Ennui

These pieces express an underlying sinister opulence and a latent detachment that seems to be abundant within the communities of the exceedingly wealthy. After almost two years living within one of the richest neighborhoods in the country in suburban Connecticut, I observed complacent and comfortable lives insulated inside a bubble of illusory fulfillment and contentedness. Self indulgent and self important nobles, cloistered from suffering, physical labor, struggle and the aesthetically imperfect, breed endless future generations of elite who see in themselves an inherent superiority for attaining triumphant success, despite the reality of providentially being born to a privileged existence dedicated to the perpetuation of a culture that celebrates the splendor of resolute amassment of personal wealth.

Tuckerman with Portrait of Mother and Father

The Sporting Life

The Watershed

Guilt Of Living Freely

A Fitting Family

In the Club

Our Elite

The Bridge

Privileged Information (Nigel)

Sanguine Boy

Melancholic Boy

Phlegmatic Boy

Choleric Boy

Ignorance/Complacency

These pieces convey a numbing and bewildering potential of overwhelmingly complex and omnipresent controlling systems within nature, societies, and universal mathematical laws, which are difficult to comprehend or accept and are therefore ignored or denied. These pieces are meant to be visually alluring and disruptive to reflect an overall feeling of confused awe and comfortability in willful ignorance.

Transitional Period

The Bounty of My Ignorance

Belief in Reason

White Sky

Waiting for the Best Knowledge

Plateau of Man 1

Plateau of Man 2

Plateau of Man 3

Default Boy

Perfect Phlegmatism

Impression of Noise and Color

I was Born on the Merry-Go-Round

Codex

Cortex

Symphony in White 4

Premillennial Pal

Memento Mori

Absurdist Futility

These pieces are expressions of the absurdist nature of beliefs and reverence of meaning and purpose. Reminiscent of religious iconography and Renascence portraits, they evoke a fused dichotomy between an adoration of beauty and the sublime, and objective meaninglessness in everything. Our natural visual attraction toward the face comes into play through exploration of a fundamental fascination of the human likeness that reflects an ingrained broad narcissism in a desire for self examination and defining a direct relationship with divinity. They are meant to be simultaneously alluring and repulsive to represent the endless struggle of finding purpose in an indifferent universe.